Harness-saddle.



No. 808,160. PATENTED DEC. 26, 1905.

W. L. KELLERMAN.

HARNESS SADDLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1905 UNTTE STATES PATENT orrron.

*ILLIAM L. KELLERMAN, OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO SCOTTH. HULL, OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA.

HARNESS-SADDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1905.

Application filed March 18, 1905- Serial No. 250,718.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. KELLER- MAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and a resident of Oskaloosa, Mahaska county, Iowa,have invented a new and useful Harness-Saddle, of which the following isa speci- -iication.

The object of this invention is to provide improved construction forharness-saddles.

and pad.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinationof elements hereinafter setforth, pointed out in my claims, andillustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is anelevation, partly in section, illustrating my device. Fig. 2 is across-section on the indicated line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aperspective of a base-plate employed in the device. Fig. 4 is aperspective of a hookplate employed in the device.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral 10 designates apad of double form, having a top leather 11 extending from end to endthereof. The pad may be constructed in any desired form so long as itretains the top leather 11 or its equivalent as an element. A base-plate12 is provided for and is mounted beneath each end portion of the topleather 11. Each base-plate is fixed to the top leather 11 by a rivet13. Each baseplate 12 is formed with an arch or offset portion 1Aintermediate of its ends, which arches or ofl'set portions extendupwardly through apertures in the top leather 11. A stud 15 is formed oneach base-plate adjacent the arch or offset portion 14 and extendsupwardly through the top leather 11. A bolt-hole 16 is formed in the topof each arch or ofl set portion 1% and a slot 17 is formed in andtransversely of the inner end portion of each baseplate 12. A bur 18,formed with laterallyextending wings 19, is mounted loosely in the archor offset portion 14 of each base-plate and the ends of the wings reston the top leather, the threaded aperture of the bur registering withthe bolt-hole 16. Apertures or slots 20 are formed in the top leather11, registering with the slots 17 of the base-plates. A pad-skirt 21 isprovided at each end of the pad 10. The pad-skirts are provided withholes 22 to receive the studs 15 and rest on the upper surface of thetop leather, the upper ends of the pad-skirts abutting the arches orofliset portions 14. A saddle-piece 23 is mounted above the centralportion of the top leather 11 and is formed with a slot 24 in each end,registering with the slots 17 and 20. Hook-plates 25 are provided andare adapted to overlie the upper end portions of the pad-skirts 21 andthe arches 0r ofl'set portions 14. Thehook-plates 25 are formed withhooks 26 and forwardly extending lips 27 on the extremities of saidhooks, the hooks extending through the slots 24:, 20, and 17 and thelips extending toward each other beneath the top leather and retainingthe hooks-in the slots. The hook-plates 25 are formed with end flanges28, adapted to engage the top leather 11 and make a finish adjacent thehooks 26 and side flanges 29, extending downward across the side marginsof the pad-skirts and making a finish at the sides of said plates.Terrets 30 are provided, and the bolts 31 thereof extend through holesin the hook plates and arches and seat in the burs 18. The terrets andtheir bolts, in connection with the burs 18, firmly and securely connectthe baseplates, top leather, pad skirts, and hookplates, and the hooksfirmly yet flexibly connect the saddle-piece 23 to the base-plates andtop leather. The top leather is flexible and the hooks loosely embracethe end bars of the saddle-piece, thus providing hinges or flexingpointsat each end of the saddle-piece.

It will be observed that in the construction above defined I avoid usingseveral screws or equivalent fastening means, and through the medium ofthe studs 15, hooks 26, and terretbolts I efiect simpler and safeconnections between the parts. By oflsetting the arches 14: through thetop leather and mounting the burs 18 between said arches and top leatherI avoid extending the terret-bolts into the pad and consequentdifliculty of properly attaching the bolts to burs in the pad.

I claim as my invention 1. A harness-saddle, comprisingapad, baseplatesmounted in said pad and formed with arches extending through the top ofsaid pad,

burs mounted between said arches and the top of the pad, studs on thebase-plates extending through the top of the pad, pad-skirts adapted tobe engaged by said studs, hook-plates adapted to overlie the arches andpad-skirts, hooks on said hook-plates engaging the top of the pad andthe base-plates, a saddle-piece flexiloly connected to said hooks, andterrets engagingsaid burs and adapted to bind the hookplates to thebase-plates.

2. In a harness-saddle, a pad, a base-plate in said pad, a portion ofsaid base-plate arched through the top of said pad and apertured, a

- bur loosely confined in the arched portion of WVILLIAM L. KELLERMAN.

\Vitnesses:

EVAN WV. THOMAS, H. S. HOWARD.

